Planet B: 100 Ideas for a New World

Edited by Alain Bieber

"The Living Architecture Systems Group" by Philip Beesley

"Can architceture integrate near-living functions? The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG)
is bringing together researchers and industry collaborators from Canada, USA, and Europe in
an interdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to an emerging trend of architectural design
that questions definitions of life itself. Applying knowledge from
interdisciplinary research, LASG is developing built environments with qualities that come
strikingly close to life; environments that can move, respond and learn; environments that grow;
and are adaptive and empathic toward their inhabitants."